Wire fence



(No Model.)

WIRE FENCE. No. 363,003 Patented May 1'7, 1887.

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JOHN G. SCHILLER, OF YOUNGSTOVN, OHIO.

lit IRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,003, dated May 17, 1887.

(No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN G. SonILLnn, of Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vire Fences, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a View in elevation of a panel of fence made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the joints. Fig. 8 is a similar view of the opposite side thereof. Fig.4 is a side elevation of one of thejoint-seeuring plates, and Fig. 5 is a similar view of the other side.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts in all the figures of the drawings.

My invention relates to wire fences, and has for its object to simplify and eheapen them, as

well as to render them more durable and lessliable to get out of order.

My invention consists, first, in an improved joint-securing plate, and, second, in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts forming an improved fence, as fully described hereinafter, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings by letter, a a. are. the posts of any desired material and form; I) b, 810., the horizontal or longitudinal wires of the fence; 0 0, &c., the vertical wires; and (Z d, &e., thejoint securing plates.

The wires 1) and c are of any desired material and any suitable shape in cross-section, preferably ordinary or galvanized iron or steelv wire of No. S or 9 gage.

Thejunction-plates (orjoi nt-seeurin 3; plates) (1 are preferably circular in form, made of wrought sheets by stamping out, or of n1alleable east-iron by castin They are provided with a diainetric rectangular slot, 0, whose ends 6 are chanifered or inclined, as shown. On their opposite sides these plates are provided with asemi-cylindrical groove, f, extending diametrically from edge to edge of the plate at right angles to the slot 0. The edges of this groovef, at the sides of the slot 0, are ehamfered off orinelined, as atf. (See Fig. 5.)

To construct my fence, each of the upright wires is provided with as many ti-shaped bends or curved bends, as at g, as there are line-wires These bonds are thrust through the slots 0 in the joint-plates, the edges 0 0 receiving the sides of the bends 1 and the apiees of said bends projecting through the slots sufficiently far to permit the passage of the longitudinal wires Z). These wires 2) are then passed through said bends, and by placing a heavy hammer or weight behind the plate and giving a slight tap on the apex of the bend g the line-wires are slightly bent, sufficient to p revcnt anylateral displacement of the vertical wires, and making a very neat, smooth, and durable joint. The slots 0 are just suffieiently wide to allow the bends to passthrough them, thus preventing any rattling from looseness in that direction, and are just sufficiently long to receive the bends and remedy similar evils in that direction.

The operation of bending the line-wires by tappin g, as before described, causes the bonds to more closely hug the chamfered ends of the slots, and makes a very tight, smoothjoint.

I am aware that it is not new to provide sheet-metal barb-plates with indentations to receive theline-wires, and with slots to receive the keys for securing the plates to the wires.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A joint securing plate for the vertical and horizontal wires of a wire fence, consisting of a metal plate having a diametrie sen1icylindrical groove extending from edge to edge thereof, and an elongated diametric slot cross ing said groove at the center of the plate, the

outer ends of the slot and the inner ends of' the two parts of the groove (at the point it meets the slot) being chainfered or inclined, as set forth.

2. In combination, a plate having on one face a diametric semi-eylindrical groove extending from edge to edge, and an elongated slot crossing said groove at the center, a wire provided with a V-shaped or curved bend projected through said. slot, and another wire laid in said groove and passed through theapex of said bend, substantially as set forth.

3. A wire fence consistingof suitable posts, horizontal and vertical wires, and joint-plates, the joints of said fence each consisting of a plate having an elongated diametrie slot having chamfered or inclined outer ends, and a Intestimony whereof I have hereunto set my diametricsemi-cylindricalgrooveorossingsaid hand in the presence of two subscribing witslots and chamfered at the crossing, a vertical nesses.

wire having a bend thrust through said cham- OHN G. SCHILLER. 5 fered slot, and a horizontal wire laid in said Witnesses:

groove and passed through saidbend, as set S. BRASHEARS,

forth. M. P. CALLAN. 

